One of the things bloggers do is link to each other. When we find cool sites, posts, blogs or other web content we link there. I’m telling you today about a place that I’ve found to be a great golf resource: Golf Dash, The Intelligent Golf Directory. And talk about links? Golf Dash has more outgoing links than any golf site I’ve ever seen.
It’s all about content
Just about any content you are looking for can be found at Golf Dash. Funny thing is that the content isn’t there, but the links to all the golf content you’ll ever need are. The main categories are Courses, Equipment, Golf Industry, Groups & Orgs, Instruction, News-Travel-eShop, The Game & Competition and of course a Blog.
Each of the above mentioned categories can have several subcategories. For instance the instruction category has five subcategories. Each of those subcategories then has it’s own subcategories with dozens of links within. I just counted one equipment subcategory which had 207 links. Now all of the pages do not necessarily have that many links, but on average I’d say each one has 100. So 100 times roughly five sub cats, times 7 main categories. 100x5x7=3500. Plus there are other links as well in other areas of the site. So I’m going to guess there are 3600+ golf links there. Wow.
Search, find
Golf Dash also has some good built in search features for internal and web searching. I typed in “Titleist” and came up with several “portlet” link results. From those portlets I was able to find 100’s of Titleist links either on the Titleist site or the web.
In the golf course search I typed in the word “Sandy” which happens to be the city where a couple of my home courses are located. Within about 3 seconds I had links to the 3 clubs I play in the city of Sandy, their addresses, directions and telephone numbers.
Customize
How many sites do you go to where you don’t like the color scheme or the way the data is organized? At golf dash you can personalize your experience with your account settings. You can change color schemes and even modify the content layout.
Conclusion
Whether you’re looking for golf equipment, news, organizations or just the phone number to the course down the street, Golf Dash is a valuable resource. Though there are literally thousands of links, the streamlined categorization and search functions make it very quick and easy to find what you’re looking for in the golf world.
Goeorge Archer died at age 65 after a one year battle with lymphoma. I didn’t realize he was that young. He was a fixture on the Senior Tour for years. He won 12 times on the PGA Tour, including winning the 1969 Masters. Archer was well known for being one of the best putters ever.
I haven’t seen a post over at Bogey Lounge since September 10th. I’m getting worried that Bogey Man is in the hurricane area.
Bogey: You OK?
The U.S. won the President’s Cup yesterday with 18.5 points versus 15.5 for the International team. I was expecting to see a lackluster, uninspired appearance by the U.S. Team and I was happily surprised I didn’t. I could be one of the ones who expected the International team to lose handily without the help of Ernie Els but I knew they’d come well prepared and give the U.S. all they could handle.
The Fire
The U.S. Team seemed to have a fire burning that I haven’t seen in several Ryder Cups and President’s Cups. Perhaps this fire finally came as a result of being slammed by the press and the fans for their previous appearances. Perhaps they just got tired of being beaten by relative no-name (certain players excluded) opponents. Maybe it is that captain Jack Nicklaus found a way of inspiring his team, or finally found teams that gelled.
Whatever the reason, I loved watching the intensity of the matches. Several players seemed to elevate their games to higher levels during this event like Mike Weir and Fred Couples. What is it with Freddy seeming to own Vijay in these events? That was fun to watch. Tiger seemed to have a bit more of the team mentality this time around as well, even though he lost his individual match to Goosen.
Mr. Clutch
Clearly the big story of this President’s Cup is the performance of my newly named “Mr. Clutch” Chris DiMarco. DiMarco performed so well that captain Nicklaus picked him has the anchor player in the final match, rather than the seemingly standard pick Tiger Woods. How much does that tell you that Nicklaus put his faith in DiMarco as the anchor? The results showed that not only is Jack (my pal) smart, but DiMarco has some of the biggest golf balls out there.
DiMarco’s final match against the slow-playing ball-bomber Stuart Appleby, was some of the funnest and most intense golf I’ve watched. It was like watching two heavyweight boxers trade punches. But DiMarco was fighting out of his weight class and was outweighed by 50 yards off the tee.
The Shot
Most the highlights have been showing the final clutch putt DiMarco made on the first sudden death hole to seal the victory. That’s great. But the shot DiMarco hit from a terrible stance in the bunker was the difference maker. That amazing shot from 180 yards is what gave him the chance to make that clutch putt. There was almost no way he should have been able to knock that shot close enough to make the winning putt but he did. Simply clutch.
For a guy who hasn’t actually won a tournament since the 2002 Phoenix Open, DiMarco has some major respect in the golf world. Deservedly so.
For the seventh time in nine years Tiger Woods has won the player of the year. This was no surprise.
The PGA Tour player of the year award is based on a points system which gives points for victories as follows:
30 points for major wins
20 points for The Players Championship
10 points for any other PGA Tour win
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